Long-time Ukrainian politician, Serhiy Tihipko, is in the middle of Ukraine's political turmoil; the former vice-Prime Minister is in parliament as a member of unpopular ex-Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich's Party of Regions; rumored to be making a presidential run in May. Tihipko began working in banking in the 1990s, and was one of the early founders of PrivatBank now owned by fellow billionaires

Ihor Kolomoyskyy and Henadiy Boholyubov. He sold off another banking asset, TAS-Kommerzbank, to a Swedish investor at the height of the market in 2007 for $735 million and invested funds in his election campaigns as well as in various businesses from real estate to machinery.

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